Register of Undertakings and Assurances

Here is the latest version of the Crossrail register of Undertakings and Assurances, as published in August 2011. It updates and replaces the version published in February 2010.

The purpose of the register is to capture all the individual undertakings and assurances given to petitioners and to Parliament into a single document to ensure that the "nominated undertaker" (any person appointed to construct Crossrail), as well as the Secretary of State for Transport or any other organisation exercising the Act's powers, complies with them.

The register forms part of the Crossrail Environmental Minimum Requirements (EMRs) and an undertaking has been given that "any nominated undertaker will be contractually bound to comply with the controls set out in the EMRs". The register should be read in conjunction with the other documents that are also part of the EMRs, namely the Construction Code, the Environmental Memorandum and the Planning and Heritage Memorandum. These documents can also be found through the Crossrail Bill Supporting Documents page.

Undertakings given in these documents are not included separately in the undertakings register as they are covered by the single EMR undertaking which is on the register.

The register includes:

all formal signed undertakings between petitioners and the Secretary of State for Transport

assurances given in the Crossrail Bill House of Commons and House of Lords Select Committee proceedings, transcripts of which can be found on the Parliamentary website.

undertakings and assurances given to petitioners in letters from Crossrail Ltd (CRL), the Department for Transport (DfT), or our Parliamentary Agents (Winckworth Sherwood)

undertakings or assurances given in the Crossrail Information Papers. Where undertakings or assurances given to petitioners are covered by the generic undertakings or assurances included in the information papers, they are not separately recorded against each individual petitioner in the register.

The register does not include undertakings or assurances carried out before the Bill was enacted, as the purpose of the register is to capture undertakings and assurances that are being carried out now that the Bill has been enacted and construction is under way.

The annex to the register sets out undertakings which have yet to be finalised, or have otherwise yet to take effect. The Secretary of State aims to finalise these as soon as possible.